Exciting Times for Science

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4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2009

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Brilliant scientific discoveries and cutting edge technology have transformed our world, yet many people are turned off by science. Where has the excitement for science gone, and how can we get it back? Stephen Colbert developed an interest in science at a young age, and now he shares that fascination by inviting scientists to appear on his show The Colbert Report. NOTE: All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/exciting-times-science/

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0:00.0	Our universe is filled with secret cinemas trees,
0:06.0	leaving us with many questions to be answered.
0:10.0	Now more than ever, we find ourselves searching for those answers
0:14.0	as the very fabric of space, science, and society are converging.
0:21.0	Here for the first time, these worlds collide.
0:26.0	It is we give you the knowledge that breaks the barrier between what is science
0:32.0	and what is merely pop culture.
0:34.0	This, this, this is Star Talk.
0:37.0	Now, here's your host, astrophysicist, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, and comedian Lin Coplitz.
0:45.0	Star Talk.
0:49.0	Welcome back to Star Talk.
0:51.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist with my co-host,
0:55.0	comedian actress Lin Coplitz Lin.
0:58.0	Hi.
0:59.0	Welcome back, we missed you last week.
1:01.0	I missed you guys, I was in Pittsburgh.
1:03.0	I had to make a kind of co-host.
1:05.0	I don't know if that was even possible, but we found one of my colleagues.
1:07.0	I heard he was very, very funny.
1:09.0	Yeah, he's a great guy, he's from Kentucky.
1:11.0	He's a Kentucky astrophysicist.
1:13.0	Oh, I love Kentucky.
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